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Re:Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology by oblio on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @04:25AM (#15591722)
We really need web standards for a "web wallet" and for micropayments. Something managed locally by your browser, preferably in some sort of separate sandbox. And then you'd be able set a per-site budget.

However, it feels like is something the big boys don't want to handle as a standards because there's too much money at stake if they get a piece of the pay themselves, i.e. Apple Pay & co.

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Re:Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology by dreen on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @05:18AM (#15591881)
The Web Payments API was actually created just a few months ago (or at least gained public notoriety).

https://www.w3.org/TR/payment-request/

It's already in Chrome and Edge, coming to Safari:

http://caniuse.com/#search=web%20payments

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Re:Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology by hafunnyusername on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @05:13AM (#15591865)
Have you read much about the Brave browser and the token system it's trying to implement? It's very similar to your proposed solution.
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Re:Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology by test1235 on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @05:10AM (#15591848)
I don't really have any interest in bitcoin and various cryptocurrencies, but that sounds perfect for this sort of thing, no?
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